For Arab youth, the future is in the Gulf
The most recent Arab Youth Survey shows the United States is gaining ground on Russia and China as perceived "allies."
The 2020 Arab Youth Survey, published by the Dubai public relations company acdaa-bcw, came out this week, and it’s a drop-everything must-read about the trends shaping the Middle East.
Despite the prevalence of war, protest, pandemic and economic crisis, Arab youth, defined as aged 18-24, have embraced realism, not ideology, in their view of the region.
As Afshin Molavi writes in the report, if there is an "-ism" in play here, it’s pragmatism. There is no traction among youth for grandiose schemes of Arab nationalism, Islamism, nonalignment or socialism, as may have been the case decades ago.
The watchwords are instead jobs and anti-corruption, and the hope of a better future: good governance, simply put.
